Marlene Leach
Experienced counsellor focusing on relationships and recovery
About Marlene
Marlene Leach is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom with 14 years of clinical experience. She holds BACP accreditation, which is listed after her name as BACP. She speaks English, Italian and Maltese and welcomes clients from other countries as well.
Marlene focuses on everyday struggles such as stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She also helps people facing depression, anger and addiction. Relationship problems and trauma or abuse are within her main concerns, along with issues linked to parenting, family strain and grief.
Background and approach
Her work emphasises the person's own story and strengths. She offers a calm space to talk through painful memories, repeated patterns, or difficult life changes. Marlene encourages people to notice what helps them cope and to build small, practical steps forward.
She draws on client-centred ways of working that place the person's experience at the centre. She also uses emotionally focused ideas to look at how feelings shape relationships, and existential approaches to address meaning, choices and loss. These methods are blended to match each person's needs and pace.
Marlene adapts sessions to fit different concerns, from addiction and OCD-related struggles to caregiver stress and chronic health issues. Her style is patient and straightforward, aiming to make the process as manageable as possible. Starting therapy is framed as a step-by-step conversation rather than a sudden overhaul.
What Marlene works with
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Sessions & fees
How Marlene’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's own experience at the heart of each session. The counsellor listens without judgment and helps the person find their own answers, which can suit concerns like low self-esteem and life stress.Emotionally-Focused Therapy explores how emotions shape close relationships. It helps people identify and change patterns that cause conflict or distance, which can be useful for relationship difficulties and attachment issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marlene will discuss goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then adapt methods as the relationship develops. This keeps the process collaborative and responsive to changing needs.
Online sessions make it straightforward to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact from different locations, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and live chat or text messaging suit short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These choices increase flexibility and help people keep continuity of care even when routines change.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Italian, Maltese
